ATTEMPTE IRACY.
GOOD WORY BRITISH STEERS.
TWELVE SU
CTS IN POLICE ODY.
Bows of apr attempted piracy, all scale compared though on to the pre outrages, was com tained in avat Wireless message yesterdayorning, which stated
ARSON TRIAL.
ACCUSED BOLTS WITH
THE BOOKS.
PREMEDITATION OF FIRE
HINTED.
Some light on the occurrences at 77, Wing Lok Street, on the night of October 19, was thrown by Young Fu, the third accused in the arsen trini at the Criminal Sessions, at that as roult of information the fifth day's proceedings yester received the 8.8. Hanggang day. Yeung Fu is not represented that twrate junka wore carrying by counsel and elected to give evi tack on a trading juuk dence from the witness-box. out an which between Hong Kong and Podro Blanca, "Sham near H.M/Somme wis sent out to invete the matter and returned to Colony with the junks and anmeuspects. The latter wore had over to the police who ar sparrying out investigations.
th the Hangsang and Soochow, wh were on their way to Taing rendered assistance in no small nsure in the capture of the alleged rates, and J they con- inued on their respective' voyages ifter the junks had been captured, it is unlikely that full details of the affair will be available until they return to Hang Kony.
***Save Lite! Baye Life)"
It is understood that it was the firing of small shots mingled with eries of "save life" that first at- tracted the attention of the master
of 5.8. Hangsang (Captain A. D. Kelman) as she was nearing Fedri Blance, the northern arm of Bias Bay.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1931.
FELIX VILLAS MURDER.
POLICE OUTLINE CASE "AGAINST HOUSE-BOY.
WHAT THE WIDOW SAW.
The murder of a house boy at
No. 9, Felix Villas, on December 13 was recalled at the Central Magis tracy yesterday when a Shanghai
a
Chinese, a "buy" employed at house in Kennedy Road was charg ed with murder. Mr. F. Murphy (Assistant Director of Criminal In- telligence) prosecuted."
In the morning, Li Sui Ping, who
After explaining the lay-out of together with his son, the second the premises at 9, Felix Villas, the accused, are being 'defonded by Mr.residence of Mr. R." Ohl, the local Jenkin, was 'cross-examined in the witness-box. He denied that he had anything to do with the ordering of a consignment of palm leaves, documents dealing with which were alleged to have been found in desk at 63, Connaught Road West Ho further repeated that at about 1a.m. his third son, Li Cheang, came in and said there had been fire at No. 77 which had been start- ed by the partners who, had been losing money at gambling.
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COLLISION SEQUEL. | AMOY QUARANTINE
RICKSHA PASSENGER'S CLAIM FAILS.
MOTORIST'S" NEGLIGENCE NOT: PROVED.
An action recently brought in the
nra, proprietor of an eating house Summary Court by Mr. B. Kawa
in Kowloon, to recover 2600 24 damages from, Principal Printing
Officer A. B. Didsbury, Victoria Gaol, was decided against the plaintiff when Mr. Justice Jacks gave his decision yesterday,
Mr. F. C. E. Rendall was for the
plaintiff and Mr. F. X. d'Almada, jor., defended,
agent of the Messageries Maritimes, Mr. Murphy said the deceased had been employed at the premises for about 18 months, first as houso coolic and, about three months be- fore the crime was committee, a the No. 1 boy." The defendant was employed there sa No. 1 "boy up to the time of his dismissal, about three months before the murder.
It appeared that he was dis- missed for being involved in quar-medical attendance and massage rels and also fights with the other servants. After his dismissal the deceased was appointed in his place in his evidence that he was masteras No. 1 "boy" and he moved into of a banking business in Macao and the accused's old room. arrived in Hong Kong on October 18 at 0.15 p.m. He went straight
Conspiracy Denied,
Li Yait, the second accused, stated
Extra Padlock on Door.
The deceased appears to have
SERVICE.
INAUGURATION CEREMONY.
TAKEN "OVER BY CHINESE GOVERNMENT,
The Amoy Port Health Service, hitherto controlled by the Customs was formally passed over to the National Quarantine Service on January 1, but the inauguration
ceremony took place the next day
at its official quarters, the Band, before a large audience of Chinoso oficials including Captain Pan, re- Presentative of Admiral Lin Kuo Ken, Chiefs of River Police, City Police, Health Department, Educa-
business houses.
Giving judgment, his Lordalip said: The plaintiff claims that he tion, Coinmissioner of Custom (Mr. in suffered damage from the de-. N. Holwill), heads of foreign and fendant's negligence in driving his Chinese shipping firms and other car, No. 2507, in such a manner as to callida with great force with Dr. Wu Lien Teh, Director-General In the absence of Admiral Lin, public ricksha No. 490, in which of the National Quarantine Service, the plaintiff was being driven in took the chair, and after the usual Queen's Road East on October 12, President Sun, introduced Mr. salute to the portrait to the lato. 1930, causing personal injuries to Holwill, Commissioner of Customs, the plaintiff. The plaintiff was, in Mr. Holwill said that he took much pleasure that day in formally hand- Dr. Wu Lien Teh as head of the consequence, put to expenses ining over the Port Health work to
treatment, and was also prevented National Quarantine Service.. Ever from following his occupation. The ainee the opening of the port years ngo, the Customs had in Amor, plaintiff was unable to state how as clsewhere, undertaken quaran the accident occurred and he did tine work because up to now no not call any evidence to prove negrity had been available. But now
independent Chinose health autho- ligence on the part of the defend when the Ministry of Health had created a special Quarantine Service to supervise this work all over China, he gladly, on behalf of the Inspector-General of Customs, transferred its authority to Dr. Wu, in whom they all had the greatest confidence, and wished the Quaran- tine Service every success and pros perity.
ant.
to 63, Connaught Road West, where I been in fear of somebody wanting
His Lordship held that the onus he deposited his suit case, and then to, do him an injury as there was of proving negligence was on the went out, returning shortly after 9 an additionad padlock on his door plaintiff, but the plaintiff had con- o'clock when he found his father in besides the ordinary door lock. A tended that the payment of a sum the fat. He said that the object slip of paper had been inserted into of $12.00, cost of a doctor's bill, It was then son that a small junk of his periodical visits was to look the door lock to prevent it from by the defendant on December 18 was bearing away with full sail into the repairs to the steamer Wah being opened, from outside. To in- was an admission of negligence, before the wind, and close on her San owned by his father. He sert this piece of paper the lock which was denied by defendant's heels were two other junks with denied that he had visited 77, Wing had to be dismantled. Furthermore, solicitor. His Lordship did not black sails from which a volley of Lok Street, that evening, or that there was an iron bar kept in the agree with plaintiff's contention and benefit of the foreign guests pre-|
shots was being poured into the fugitive vessol.
he had conspired with any person
to set fire to the premises.. The Hangsang altering her
Yeung Fu, the third accused, anid course, tore straight in the direc that he had been working for the tion of the pirate craft, who in first accused as a cook at D; Queen's turn, took flight, but their efforts to Street, and later removed" to 77, escape were frustrated by the Jar-Wing Lok Street, together with
dine vessel who bore down on them, threatening to cut them infe` two.
B. & 8. Ship Arrives,
Very shortly after, the a.. Sao- chow (B. & S.) under the command of Capt. P. J. Green, which left Hong Kong an hour after the Hangsang, arrived on the scene and stía gavo valuable assistance in rounding up the two junks.
The Hangsang then sent a wire Jess message to Hong Kong and this was intercepted by H, M.S. Somme which was then cruising in the vicinity of Bias Bay. The des troyer proceeded at full speed to the socne and when she arrved, she Buw the two merchant steamers standing by the suspected craft. Capt. Kelman then made a brief report so the Commander of the Somme who detailed a party to board the two junks, and took all the suspects on board the Somme, whore they were placed under close guard and then taken to Hong Kong.
his master.
Dealing, with the night of October 18, witness said that at about 8
o'clock he was called to the second floor by first accused's third son (Li Cheung) where he saw his fellow prisoners and a few others. At this time Li Cheung, told witness that if he should hear of any ae- rident or alarm of fire the firet thing he should do was to take away the account books from the build ing.
Alarm Raised.
room, and it was assumed that this cited cases in support of this view. was there for defensive purposes.
Continuing, Mr. Murphy said the wife gave a minute description of the clothing that the accused was wearing at the time she saw him through her bedroom door, and she was positive he was the man she had seen.
No Damages Buffered.
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Emigration Trafic.
Dr. Wu Lieu Teir first spoke in Mandarin, then in English, for the
Bent. Ho aid that the National Quarantine Service of Chius was in- augurated on July 1, 1930, with the taking over of the important In conclusion, his Lorship said:—port of Shanghai. It was a well- There is nothing in the plaintiff's established fact that international evidence to connect his injuries closely intertwined when an epide
health and shipping interests were with the mishap in Queen's Road mie broke out, both the port and its beyond the fact that he saw a doctor shipping commerce suffered. Hence on the day it occurred. In fact, if I am to believe the evidence of the Resuming his story, Mr. Murphy defendant, and I see no reason why said that after the wife had found I should not, the plaintiff suffered her husband lying in the passage, she raised the alarm and the master, no injury at all. of the house went down. The police were then communicated with,
Accused Traced.
As a result of a statement made by the woman to the cook when he arrived on the scene, the police the accused had been employed as went to 28 Kennedy Road, where No. 1"boy" for about a month before the crime. The accused oc cupied a room which he normally slept in by himself, but on the night in question there were two male servants; friends of the cook, shar- ing his room.
it was most important that all con- nected with an important part like Amoy, with its huge emigration trafic, should emphasise the health people who migrate from it. of the city, its hinterland and the
Amoy had large connections with story is true, that he did suffer in the Philippines and it was most It is possible that the plaintiff's | Malaya, Netherlands East India and
jury which necessitated a visit to necessary for the Government to the doctor, that the doctor recom-enforce proper health precautions for mended a course of massage, and those who leave these shores, so that that the plaintiff was incapacitat neither the emigrants who go out ed for 17 daya and lost business as nor the territories which admit them the result of it, but the evidence should suffer unnecessary from is all very well for him to come that he had for months made ar- he gave does not convince me. It preventable diseases. Dr. Wu said here and tell me his story, but I rangements with the health authori want more than this. I want proof ties of foreign governments to these before I make another man, pay for places to co-operate to the fullest all this..
So that quite apart from the ques tion of negligence I find that the suffered any damage. plaintiff has not proved that he has
ant with costs, and order payment I give judgment for the defend out to him of the $12.00 which he
On the night of the murder, the
Witness continued that he went to sleep on the first floor and later was awakened by an alarm of fre. He took the books and ran out of
The defendant and the other ser the building with another man. Avants retired at midnight on De constable passed him near the en- cember 12, and at about 3 o'clock trance, but he was not stopped, of the room would tell the Court has paid into Court.
in the morning one of the occupants and later he was arrested as he was that the defendant' got up, and, standing a short distance away.
after putting on his clothes, went Asked if he had seen any palin ly after six o'clock. He then went Lout alone. He returned again short- leaves and shavings spread out on the floor, witness said that he had not noticed any. He added that It is understood that when the he only carried out the instructions Hangsang got to the scene, it was of Ll Cheung, who was one of the noticed that the men on the two masters of the Tin Sang Tong, and suspected craftware dumping he did not know anything about something overboard. There were the attempt to set fire to the pre- probably arme e nothing of the mises, kind was found on board when the naval parties boarded the junks.
Suspects Taken Over. Meadybile navol tug with police, ropresentatives had gone out to meet the Somme and after Detectira Bergeant John Murphy had boarded the warehip," he took charge of the suspects. The tug took the junks in tow and arrived `in the Harbour about 8.30 pijn, on,
Sunday,
... Mr.. L. H. V. Booth and Mr.. T. Murphy of the Criminal Intelli- gence Department met the Somme on arrival and took the twolva Hakkas and Hoklos on board the police launch. They were landed at
In adjourning the case until this morning, when the evidence of the third accused will be continued, his Lordship directed the warder to have the prisoner segregated from the other two so that they will have. no opportunity of speaking to each other.
This is the romaining witness in the trial which is expected to con- clude, to-day,"
WANCHAI SHOOTING
AFFAIR.
FAVOURABLY.
Blake Pier and taken to the Central MR. MANTON PROGRESSING
Police Station where they are now. detained.
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to his room and lay down in his decossed and his wife were sleep bed.
ing in their own room next to the
arrived at about 7 o'clock. He was
He was arrested when the police | kitchen. sleeping in the clothes he had gons out in, and these corresponding with the description given by tho
deceased's wife.
Bloodstains On Fingers. The defendant was taken to the No. 7 Police Station where he was examined by Chief Detective In- spector Reynolds. A certain deposit on his left finger-nail aroused the suspicion of the officer, who found further similar red deposits on two other, fingera,
extent in this international health matter.
Important work.
The Central Government, as re-
of $1 for vaccination, certificate and presented by the Quarantine Ser- vice, would charge à composite fee
medical inspection on board to each emigrant, whatever destination his might be, and the receipts would be properly controlled. The Quarantine Service had important work before it in the way of establishing a suit- able infectious discaso hospital, quarantine station, disinfection Murder Described.
plant and other requirements of a modern institution of the sort. He Murphy said that at about 5 o'clock, circles would extend the Service Coming to the actual crime, Mr. hoped that official and commercial or a few minutes before, on the every possible help in making the morning of December 13, the dework as efficient or possible. ceased's, wife was awakened by her For himself, ho could promise that husband getting out of bed. She be and his assistants would do their would tell the Court that be put best. As a beginning. they had his shoes on, unlocked the door and taken over the motor launch and the went out. Just as he got outside nicely equipped inspection offices the door, he made à half turn to and laboratory of the former Port the right and made a motion as if Health Officer, Dr. Lindsay Woods, to switch on the electric light out so that they could start work side. The electric light in his roon straight away. This equipment Dr. had already been switched on, but Wu invited those present to inspect the light in the passage was never around them in the building.
At about o'clock, the accused was taken to the Bacteriological put on Institute and there examined by Just as he turned, his wife heard Dr. D. Laing, who removed the de him shout more than once and then posits and found them to be blood. he moved forward and disappear There was also a small abrasioned from her sight. Then, for a on the middle finger of accused's matter of a few moments, she saw
British Consul's. Spesch
Consul, said that the port of Amor was in close relations with that im
Mr. Grant Jones, the British
left hand. On his trousers, blood the accused through the door of her portant territory of Great Britain
atrains were also found.
room, When he came into view he was holding a stained knife in his hand. Neither spoke, and accused then disappeared towards the kit
chen..
Widow's' Evidence.
known as Malaya, to which the An exhaustive search was made,
Province of Fukion had for several but the instrument with which the
years sent so many of her sturdy fatal injury through the heart was
migrants. Many of these had got inflicted, could not be found.
on and had helped towards the pros. Continuing, Mr. Murphy said the
After a few minutes, the wife got pority of the city. Chief among the key that opened the bedroom also up and went to the door and saw
contributions of overseas Chinese 'in open two other doors, and there had the deceased lying in the passage for which they were indebted to Mr. Amoy was the University of Amoy Whether oriminal proceedinge Another formal remand for a been, at one time, four duplicates, way will be taken against the pri- week was granted by Mr. Lindsell but about three months ago, dur-
Tan Kab Kec. The British Govern ment, the same as the British soners or not will be dooided on at the Central Magistracy ycatering the time that the accused was when the Hangsang arrives here at day, when Jesuina Maria Xavier,still employed, three disappeared, The widow of the deceased, after people, wish to keep in the closest the end of the month..
aged 43 years, was charged with the the remaining one being kept by giving evidenes in support of Mr. triendabip with China and her in- attempted murder of Mr. A. J. the doccased.
Murphy's opening, was asked by the habitants, and the happy inaugura- then the acinage, thejaskan Meerstrate whether she envidaustion of this quarenting and found on the table in the kitchen, gest any motive for the crime. Ehetion work in Amoy was out of reach of any person from told tha. Court that the two men himself and his nationals, and he outside. It had been bent in such had a quarrel some months ago a way that it gould not be inserted which actually led to blown from outside,
The hearing will be continued to (Continued ut foot of next column,), "· day,
In the meantime, the two suspect mati anchorage and statements are to be taken from the six members of the snow of the trading juak, locally registered craft, trading be tween Hong Kong and near-by -Chinese village porta.
Inspector at Wanchai on December 27.
Sub-Inspector M. Murphy, who prosecuted, told the Magistrate that Mr. Manton was progressing as well as could be expected.
wished every success to Dr. Wu and
his colleagues in the task before them. This speech terminated the morning's proceedings.:
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